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The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

Speak

Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were.

Sweet Beams: Inspiring everyone who lives under a new roof!

Wisdom is knowledge plus courage. You not only have to know what to do and when—but you have to be brave enough to actually act on it.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

I toss and turn so much in my sleep that the very act of sleeping must be exhausting for me. Sleeping makes me want to sleep even more.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil's resourceful that way.

The Sea of Tranquility

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

The Swan Thieves

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Sever

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Travel as a Political Act

Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.

Taming the Beast

He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond!

Truly, Madly, Deeply

When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence.

Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Not everything has to be an act of grand karmic retribution. This, my friends, is determined by where you presently stand, and which direction you choose to walk.

Psychic Skin Volume 2

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.

Puff

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The Picture of Dorian Gray